Wed. Mar 25, 2026 - A Study of God Class #12

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Well, according to, to the author in, you do like brother Johnson would, you know, say a lot to Mercy, is not getting what we do deserve, which would be okay to help to find a better, understand mercy. So, he and I, and I said, which I do then what's, what would be a just response to my son? Now we have that cleared off my phone.

How's that? How's that fit with Grace?

Well, Grace is getting his grace is Justice is getting what we deserve. Mercy is not getting what we deserve Grace is getting what we don't suppose. Anyone has a negative and a positive. Right?

They were one of the black, a negative reinforcement.

They don't fit together at all.

So we think of, we think of peace to sometimes, how do we get that piece? Does that fit in here somewhere?

Oh yeah.

That alone should give you.

Because you're not.

We walk around today and say it like you talked about in the, in the class couple weeks ago. If we go to court, we just want to be treated fairly and your and your were going to Josh and I don't want Justice from God. I want these other things.

Okay. You're the defendant. You might not want Justice.

Grace from the but you should want grace and mercy from the opposite side to if it is if you Seeking Justice against somebody as a Christian, you should still have that same grace mercy for the other person as well.

Anything else come up? As you went through the chapter, that stood out to particular, quote, or paragraph, or something like that.

Bullet often based on the principle of his Mercy, not what they did.

For all of us. So we're all on that side of the day. I think we can't be the prosecutor because we're all defendant. God is the only prostitute.

When I looked at the word mercy and how that the author in here to talk to you a little bit, I added some adjectives that I didn't warmly. So, so I had thought about one is I never thought of someone hitting me with the synonym for showing mercy and you looked in fines and you looked at the origin of the word, the background helps you pity no was a very prevalent.

Translation of a synonym for the word, mercy, and someone someone takes pity on me. I guess I normally associate with Mercy, maybe you guys. It reminds me of a I don't know what it is. If it was Does movie. So he was a parent and Son came to live at a beta. Some kids kind of beat him up and took his penis. Any point of the mountain, these were like for the shovel kids and they were laughing at him and so has Kevin Coster approached him cuz he know you took my kids names that begin fix power. And the first thought that came to my mind, we get these pitiful me. And so what he did was when he gave them to do that, He says those kids probably haven't seen this cotton candy in forever. So he showed grace and mercy. And as he was approaching, he was mad, but the look on their faces as they powered. They were the Civil, they were dirty and he just had a link together and I just hadn't really thought about that. I appreciate that. That doesn't mean we have peace. We've got to accept it and realize that the Sims that we've committed are forgiven and God's not holding a grudge, but a lot of times we hold on to that and it keeps us from having that piece because of our guilt. Even though he'd washed it away, that killed still could be with us.

What are reluctant to adopt? I think sometimes I feel we deserve it, but he gave it to her when you still feel like that you shouldn't have done that. There you go. Really where you started? We have to accept it.

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My co-workers drove into the depths of the ocean. That far away from me, so it makes it harder to accept.

And if this thing is, God, makes our hearts under so that we hate us and we hate him so much.

Or at least this is what my brain.

So the text Gabus Chevrolet examples of Mercy in the Bible, particularly 3 in the Old Testament. Did any one of those stick out to you? Or

Talk to you on the way.

What would meet when you look at Noah? Do you look at

Sodom and Gomorrah.

Definitely was based on God's mercy because they were not. Mike stetler. If you think about it because well with Noah,

He was not but because of God's grace and mercy he was able to look past that and he saw all these country artist with these fly. You know, a lot of lives if they was terrible father. He was he would not get the father of the year award at all and same thing with my little eye. Now, why are you in that city? Did it again cuz cuz you cuz you wanted the better you wanted to better thing and we know how he eventually ended up there and when he left the people him and the people that left with them, we're not Saints. And so you see God's grace and mercy, grace and mercy, they're God's grace and mercy. So that that kind of a kind of showed me that I'm so fortunate that he is not looking for perfect human being our weaknesses. Show show God's power because he uses uses regular people to further his will and he met with all their faults and all their problems.

Any other thoughts on the on the examples? What did what did you think about?

Abraham's. Hurry up. I would say to

Push that board.

Hugh Hughes negotiate.

Did did that strike you as being brave or stupid? Okay, you're working. Like this is the first time. He's God. Spoke, what was the first conversation you recall?

A man to kill his son.

I don't do is Really Brave but you're comfortable enough to do it.

So are we comfortable enough to do something like that?

He was very reverential before you ask question, what is demonstrate?

To be merciful. And so he in his flawed, Ability. He was trying to show. Mercy 5240 38th and Sable. What about OK Google. What about what you he was if you would allow me to indulge your please, he was very very

Very politic respectful humble, those are the words. And he was looking to show Mercy to a people that did not cuz I see we need to show mercy and he wasn't Benedict. There a mall out everyone. In my family, come to repentance. And he Annie you the same. Whatever. The math is a however many

It'd be okay. Because it's just 50, he won't. And then give me a, give me a fake number when you would spare the city. Because if I see 10 I won't I won't destroy that. He finally got like, buying a car. If you don't make an offer in the car dealer says you got it. I just get ripped off, so.

what are the seat up are, you can get

What about? And then just keep going down because got accepted that too quickly if you really want to say, he knew that. Yeah. Yeah.

But you just wasn't confident that it was fifty righteous. People kept going down to, you know, where he felt or this is do tennis doable. You see why they wouldn't have 50 or 42?

I'm sorry I had to leave when he got the 10 in the sense is not that God, stop talkin, right? And then I guess what? I gather from reading it here then he stopped asking. And so what you always revealing tonight when the thought I've been caring for year that, it wasn't that he was trying to get there. Same number

My thing real self is God, they're well. Okay, you starting at $50 but again I see my thinking didn't line up with the way you are viewing it. Please open.

it's interesting where this account is in Genesis, power relates to other things to look at, in Genesis about, The all-knowing God knowing, knowing, when to Sarah thought in her head, before she said it was right before this passage. And, you know, she came out and lied to God and he didn't call her on it because he let it slide. And then, then for the next fuel, next paragraph. Got in the morning to give her hand of the end. You know what? He intends to do and here we are after.

Eastpoint Mall. That's all I can say. White mold in, in bringing up in that situation.

Both the Old and the New Testament. One of the things that I found that God wants us to talk to him. and I give you an accent example of knowing not knowing

Joan.

Jonah Jonah. In the Bible, leave us with a stalemate between Jonah and God. He really didn't want those people. She wanted them all. That's how strong is it on the matter and, you know, and when do, when do the, I won't say a whale. But when does kids swallowed him and he was in the belly of the, of the fierce praying you have to, you have to just go through everyday. I believe that's in chapter two babies, in the belly and

Still have that faith in God, that God was going to, to give him salvation. But that's the point that I'm trying to say is that God wants us to talk to him, are the Hebrew writers that we can come to the throne of grace with boldness. We don't have to be fearful life. Are they worried in the Old Testament? We could come and we can talk on this like a fog. I'm having problems with this. My father. I'm having Dad, not in the way of negotiating and sand. Okay, where you approve my seeing or something like that? No, we don't do that. Because we know Pat and reading the Bible and read and stripped his back. I just believe God as a father just like you can talk to your father. Or I could talk to my dad and same with that thing, most of us we can talk to her father's about things and I think that's the way God wants that relationship, intimate relationship with each of us when I pray, you know, public prayers different than a prayer when you had on you talk to God.

And what I'm trying to say is that guy wants that relationship told Abraham and his pleading for God, hear the righteous judge of all what about saving ten final number are, you know, cuz you know who God is and that just shows his fake women that way. So why I see it like he wants us to really, really let let our hair down. So to speak, I got very little but you know what? I'm talk to you for the LG is saying in the missing to this preacher and then he was in the household and it was he had two other brother. And he said, what is brother? Almost everything? he wanted, he got And, and he was looking at that, and he thought to himself after a while and he said he went to his father and he said, you know, and he said because he had he asked for it.

No, he's our father. He cares for us. He proved that with his son Christ, Jesus. I know what I say that. I'm talking about God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, I'm not separate. It's like speaking to the sun because after all he is a mediator, our prayers go from us to him from our sales to cries to God, our father, because he's the mediator between man and God, is that correct phrases that are used often within scripture come let us reason together. Awesome. Power. Who wants to reason with me is just a little fat and yes, it is exactly God wants that relationship. He wants to be. Intimate. And in, A part of our lives in every way and yes, when we pray at home we pray very differently than we do and work it cuz we're playing for a collective body. You know, you don't want. You are personal things in that circumstance. But you, you do at home and you're, as as we've discussed Pony, talking about prayer. How you the eloquence of the words don't matter. That's not what we're here for.

So, if I appreciate your comment is without Mercy to him, that have shown No Mercy, Mercy glorious against judge by Iggy. We had it with reminds me of this is what are they can say that? You got two individual, you got Abraham asking for mercy. God wants us to have, too much to eat. He wanted, he was asking for Mercy for Sodom, and Gomorrah was Jonah wanted justice. So you could eat that. He didn't want any mercy and we understand the two cities, you understand both were extremely evil. Miracle was a terrible, terrible, Place brutality, cannibalism, all kinds of terrible things and Sodom and Gomorrah. I think it was it. Thanks Jude. The semester will they were they if they were not hospitable, I remember somebody saying that. But I think juice if, you know, because They desire strange flesh. You know all kinds of crazy. So both were demonstrating then what fun places but one man was seeking Mercy. Make and some of them or just serve Justice, and one person was Seeking Justice, but the other place on Payne Mercy. Quote, because they repented that that does help contribute here online that says, despite Jonas selfish, desire and Jonah for 6 or 11. God's mercy, extended even to terrible enemy.

I can't help it. Go back to the concept of the prodigal son, where talks about his son, who stayed back and did everything as he was supposed to have done.

He was not going to Justice when when mercy was extended to the to the to the brother who came back and in that passage do we identify with a the one that goes off and does all, that mean comes back and accepts the fathers Mercy Marie weighed in at 5. With one who stayed there and feels like, well I can hear all. I want you to pay attention to me and you know I hate depends on sometimes where we are and I'll find our lives at that. Keep it at that point in time. What what's a wonderful is? The father's on both sides. Just as much. Should I have one back? That was gone. It's just so precious. I was going to say that I used to do with my thought was that when you said that and I believe that you is acting the two brother, but my focus truly was on the father and the son said it again. Despite of what this son have dead in Matthew, most of us knew what it is.

Describe that he ran towards me.

At the individual. Then what can I take to myself?

How would I really feel if my child did that without knocking? I'll be glad that they would be safe in but have you but I think it will throw a party. If we all have God and his love and his desire for us to be said, we have entertained all over there. I mean, we're working towards it. I mean, I am speaking for myself. Maybe somebody else

I like that to a son that just took all of that money and wasted and everything. Here I am working every day and doing everything I'm supposed to do but the father explained look, I'm fighting a battle of Being Human and I don't mind saying that I'm fighting a battle with. My enemy that has so many tools to use to destroy us and so the little things that happen in life we have to take a little time and step back and say you know, that it's just not, right? I mean I shouldn't feel that way or except I'm just putting it on your credit where credit's due to the Ashbury. 3852 is Bonita and not bury them.

You had something.

the song that was, that was doing the riding in the The living that he was.

And he came.

How many years of service?

Won't be no trouble.

Father, treat us all. Your father, loved that song and he wanted that song to be brought back to where he was and they're not God and God wants us fat. And he would do all everything in his power to get us back to him and he has done.

I'm not going to go. If it was talk of the lost sheep,

Is Ross.

Like that song. I knew he was. and when he found that, he brought it back,

but you're thinking about,

Don't want to come back. And enjoy the benefits. Of what the father has done to Jesus Christ.

But also he is intention wasn't like you said in the beginning, he said, you know, I'll come back as a hired servant. I'll come back as a slave. He didn't, his intentions wasn't too out. Let me go back to the father so I can get all of these things. You and me, he just wanted to make things right? And it just so happened that the father has lavished him with all those gifts and parties and all that. So, his heart was in the right place.

when you read, The first time I read the Bible, every every Parable position myself as a good person in the terrible, I was the Good Samaritan. I was not part of the people who were going to kill the Sun and then take over the vineyard. I was not the all of the Jews who said let's go back to Egypt to get rid of Moses. I was not any of those and now I know that I was all those people that I didn't like and didn't want to be and thought I wasn't because we're human. And it's just interesting how you can just post those ends and put yourself on either side. And save and which one am I more? Like Where was The Samaritan little kuju two Jews? Walk past them. I doubt if they were in some area so he probably wasn't welcome. Wherever he found that Jew. Yet, he helped them. If I'm in Detroit. I don't know that I'm going to stop much less doing it now. I can you dial 911 but am I going to stop and help? Somebody. I don't know, probably not. I'm probably more like those two guys that walked past and when wet on the other side of the street,

let me message you when I I did read that story, but have you ever heard my loose change? And let's go call Martin Luther King busy. It's still a lot of stuff, but really, I was impressed me. I had me thinking in the stairs, is the fact that he said, the man wasn't worried about what would happen to him, he would worry about what would happen to the guy if you left him there and truly I had Cuz some of y'all know I do two pair of pants and I did it in one more than I, not see this person and he's laying on the bench in the scent and like you talking about, I'm talking to myself. Okay. I'm just going to pay this person up because I'm not quite sure what's going on here. And then came to me.

What would happen to him are? Really I left him out there, it's alright, for me, a real simple when I got out of myself in, and that's the way I saw that when I got out of myself, I no longer was fearful that I could ship somebody else in in bad things would happen to me.

And we jumped out of the bushes after you help them.

I'll see that, you know, and I know it just individuals That Homeless. And you yeah and when I say you made it myself, you know, I seen him laying on the beach and chill in the morning and what have you and I know two days probably code, are the washroom itself in there cuz have to be open. I'm thinking maybe they're utilize that. But again, on the same token, For me, if you recognize my bless you all. Kobe. Again, we was talking to you and somewhere in here, then I was thinking like that with the prodigal son in the center, in, for a lot of people based on the decision that you made. Is he bad decision? Put you here. And I'm not sure, there's always true. It's always. Yeah, like I said, when I saw him there, I talk to myself, okay. Big ol situation that I wouldn't worry about what happened to me, I would buy what happened to him. If I didn't help him where, you know, the Bible is designed to teach us lessons with us. What it is? We start here. And as we learn, we work ourselves up to here. We keep going. That's what I get from the Apostle Paul that I have enough game. But he don't look back and keep going. And I know Tony appreciate several times, right? You don't feel sorry about what's behind you, but you keep pressing on to the mark of the high calling. So when we learn lessons in the Bible and Tony has been really nailed and if we got two parties thing, you know we just have to find man certain circumstances if we if you know you look and you say and you say to yourself into a situation that I need to help or not are for whatever you know I think of I don't know if my wife was with me but it was a guy up on the corner and he was staggering and all and I tried to help him but I couldn't get no, he wouldn't get refused to get take the hill. But in some circumstances, I look around, I'm not going, I'm not going to do, I'm not going to do that because, you know, you have two ways different situations that you really do. And God is telling us that he wants us to do good, he wants us to do the best we can to do to it, and And you all know my definition of righteousness. Don't you write doing? And I think this altar nailed it right here at the bottom of page, 74 here. I thought I was going to do too much to talk to me but I'm doing

Right here in La assassin. Stevenson on a page 74. She says.

He said he would let me get it and read it. As soon as I hear Abraham stage, one of the great truths about God, I found in the Bible shall not the judge of all the Earth do, right? Do Riders ride to one. That's what writing this is right.

Got everything. He does is right, he does no wrong. Whether we look at it you know, from a human standpoint and not well, I don't agree with that or whatever or whatever, but everything God does is right. And his stall is knowledge. Is so far above our hard sometimes, we don't reach the same conclusions. Just like the part that I showed you about Jonah children of God.

Tony is you you to preach it shouldn't God had have some mercy on me. Shruti City Mall. It's not. He has no choice but it's his very essence.

Why did he show? Why did he show Mercy to them? Why did he show Mercy to you know to lock Miss families me to meet. There's a there's a reason he showed Mercy, it's his nature. And why did they show Mercy to The Prodigal Son in all those cases people repent that was a repentant heart. And took me a question out of this pit baptism out of his death because we demonstrate that he will be merciful to those who obeyed. The gospel gospel, totally different person. Tire City of Nineveh. Even the animals in their capacity of the king, that coughing a lot and his family obeyed. Urgent. But they did obey. His wife turned back but she she she stopped and every case. Exhibited his Mercy because people repent it. So. But it also give us that we have to do our part. We have a responsibility here today is really that the mindset of work or what are we looking for? And in The Prodigal Son, it was the son who stayed back thought it was unfair God's fair, and there's plenty of blessings as plenty of mercy. And there's plenty of goodness to go to everyone. And you think of the, the workers in the vineyard, they all received the same way to the end of the day. Regardless of when they started work, many sit here and say, is that fair The reward that we're getting from God Is So spectacular and amazing to think that I'm not getting my fair share just with none of us deserve this at all that last question. How is baptism related to Mercy of God would you turn the Titus 3:4 set Titus Chapter 3? Starting verse for open the goodness and loving-kindness of our God, our savior appear. He saved us. Not because of these done by us and righteousness, but in virtue of his own Mercy, By the washing regeneration in renewal in the Holy Spirit, which he poured out upon us richly through. Jesus Christ, Our Savior. So that we might be justified by his grace and become a and hope you turn the light. I think that that passage really kind of ties this except for us,

What what we're doing when you see the news. Look at that. Passage. What what's your response or what's your thought? What thought comes into your head? Let Me to the Cross. I miss seeing you wanted. Titus 3 and 4 verses 4 through 7.

You said God doesn't have to show him our so I got has to show Mercy. You didn't show much to the people in The Promised Land. Signature repentance.

Are the Philistines were part of that, all the people that God told the Israelites to destroy. Romans 1 answers that because they refused to retain the knowledge of God that gave them over. So God, let them do what they want to do and so got to let your will be done. So that's why I went there, but there were some saved out of it. We have in Jericho so

An understanding and recognition of your situation. But this tells us and kind of recalculates everything. So it got a job and he didn't contribute anything and it's solely due to him. Mercy gives a new birth and regeneration and that's completed by the Holy Spirit within us. And then he watched us watch it by the spirit that was poured out. So we're Justified, and it's not that.

Not just righteous. But what are we called? Or called errands?

We're pretty special. and, That should give us. The ability to communicate with god, with some sense of confidence, respect and fear mean your knowledge inspected. that we can communicate and not and we can have like Abraham did it with confidence and not with Begin to shine, but I can't pass away and express my sorrow. My anger disappointment to our house. In your thoughts before we close up. when I get back to Palm Court View,

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Abraham.

He would have a nation.

I was the one that. 72 of them.

And that's what a nation. How do you make this promise to Abraham?

This mail.

Doing that time. Electric scooter like blue diamond. God.

Right now.

You show Mercy.

But when he came out, he had promised them the link, you know, that God sees his

And cell phone that came out. They lost but I told them to cancel.

What did Jesus tell? The people his followers tank to be like, be like the children be innocent and trusting like that and you told the Israelites kill them too. So God did not show Mercy to those children. We have to also language. Says when you said what I said that t.i. and do not marry the women are. So you have to understand Middle Eastern hyperbolic language. I read this book on that's how they how they talked. Tell him to kill babies and children know that bats. I'm not saying that No, but reading history as questionable because these people still showing up or do they or did? He know they were going to kill everybody. I didn't know. I'm disagreeing with your premise that God did. Know what I'm saying? Is when God said that, he knew exactly what he said and they knew exactly what he meant and what you meant problems, it was probably not feeling all that.

When I grow up by Israelites, how many kids are adopted out of a bad environment and they are nothing like environment they came out. He killed and destroyed them because they were destroying our children. You got to look at the whole thing, they were offering their children if they all but the ones that they didn't kill them to eat dinner now.

Cuz you can be God and God is great. God is love and God knows everything.